Some people might call this boy crazy. I call this fun.
But that is not the point, either.
The point is, for the entire first two decades of my life (when I lived in a town in which seventeen percent of the college community was in the Greek system), and for the decade after that (when I worked as the a.s.sistant director of a large urban university dormitory), I never encountered a fraternity like the one in this book, the Tau Phi Epsilon House-which is entirely fictional.
This is not to say the FAT CHICKS GO HOME thing never happened. It was, in fact, painted on the sidewalk of a fraternity at my college. It was the same fraternity whose members would sit on the front porch and hold up scorecards as girls walked by on their way to cla.s.s, rating their looks on a scale of one to ten (I learned to take a different route to cla.s.s).
It"s also the fraternity that, as a prank, stole all my mother"s potted plants from our front porch and placed them on their own front porch, then denied having done so when we spotted them there and called the cops.
But I recognize that there are many exemplary fraternities and sororities in existence, whose charitable and philanthropic acts have made them invaluable to many, and are an a.s.set to the communities in which they exist. I include among these the Delta Nus, the Omega Mus, and, of course, the Tri-Lams.
I hope you enjoyed reading Size 14 Is Not Fat Either. Look for my next mystery featuring Heather Wells, currently t.i.tled Big Boned, in January 2008.
About the Author.
MEG CABOT was born in Bloomington, Indiana. Armed with a fine arts degree from Indiana University, she moved to New York City to pursue an ill.u.s.tration career, but when that failed to materialize, got a job as the a.s.sistant manager of an undergraduate dormitory at New York University instead, writing novels on the weekends (and whenever her boss wasn"t looking). Meg has since gone on to publish over thirty novels for younger readers as well as adults, including The Princess Diaries series, Size 12 Is Not Fat, and Queen of Babble. She now divides her time between New York City and Key West with her husband and their one-eyed cat, Henrietta.
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By Meg Cabot.
SIZE 14 IS NOT FAT EITHER.
QUEEN OF BABBLE.
SIZE 12 IS NOT FAT.
EVERY BOY"S GOT ONE BOY MEETS GIRL THE BOY NEXT DOOR SHE WENT ALL THE WAY ALL-AMERICAN GIRL.
READY OR NOT: AN ALL-AMERICAN GIRL NOVEL.
NICOLA AND THE VISCOUNT VICTORIA AND THE ROGUE THE PRINCESS DIARIES.
THE PRINCESS DIARIES, VOLUME II: PRINCESS IN THE SPOTLIGHT.
THE PRINCESS DIARIES, VOLUME III: PRINCESS IN LOVE.
THE PRINCESS DIARIES, VOLUME IV: PRINCESS IN WAITING.
THE PRINCESS DIARIES, VOLUME IV AND A HALF: PROJECT PRINCESS.
THE PRINCESS DIARIES, VOLUME V: PRINCESS IN PINK.
THE PRINCESS DIARIES, VOLUME VI: PRINCESS IN TRAINING.
THE PRINCESS DIARIES, VOLUME VIII: PRINCESS ON THE BRINK.
THE PRINCESS PRESENT: A PRINCESS DIARIES BOOK.
VALENTINE PRINCESS: A PRINCESS DIARIES BOOK.
PRINCESS LESSONS: A PRINCESS DIARIES BOOK.
PERFECT PRINCESS: A PRINCESS DIARIES BOOK.
HOLIDAY PRINCESS: A PRINCESS DIARIES BOOK.
THE MEDIATOR 1: SHADOWLAND.
THE MEDIATOR 2: NINTH KEY.
THE MEDIATOR 3: REUNION.
THE MEDIATOR 4: DARKEST HOUR.
THE MEDIATOR 5: HAUNTED.
THE MEDIATOR 6: TWILIGHT.
THE 1-800-WHERE-R-YOU BOOKS.
WHEN LIGHTNING STRIKES CODE NAME Ca.s.sANDRA.
SAFE HOUSE SANCTUARY MISSING YOU.
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